All in the Family

There are just a few more days to catch the Gallery 15Twenty exhibition connected to L.A. photographer Lauren Dukoff's new book, Family. She's been photographing her high school pal Devendra Banhart for the last 10 years, and the book is a beautiful document of this mystical, musical moment in Los Angeles. The photo above is Devendra and his band's homage to the Cockettes, a flamboyant, gender-bending late '60s San Francisco performance troupe who lived communally and liked to cover themselves in glitter.

I wrote a piece about the book for the L.A. Times, and Devendra told me that the whole impetus for the photo was to "lead people to the Cockettes...it’s like covering a song. You don’t cover a song to try to do it better."

Maybe not, but the boys sure look awfully purty.

Read the L.A. Times story HERE